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Towards Immutable Resources
Mark Derricutt discusses the importance of having different read and write data models when working with RESTful web APIs.
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5 Anti-Patterns in Designing APIs
Ali Kheyrollahi elaborates on the Client-Server tenet of REST which focuses on separation of concerns and responsibilities between the client and the server.
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Keep It Simple*, Silly
Mark Walkholm discusses best practices around APIs and looks at some concepts around providing different ways for users to interact with a product to get the most from it.
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Light and Fluffy APIs in the Cloud
Shiva Narayanaswamy discusses event driven architectures, serverless architectures, identity management and security related to building APIs in the cloud.
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Creating Java REST Servers from Swagger API Definitions
Swagger is a simple but powerful representation of RESTful APIs. This talk gives an introduction to API creation using the Swagger Editor, and creating a REST service using swagger-codegen.
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APIs for Amnesty
Vivian Chandra outlines the benefits of an API they created including how it has helped them automate part of their CRM process and protected them from changes of the CRM system.
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Federated Queries with HAWQ - SQL on Hadoop and Beyond
Christian Tzolov shows different integration approaches between HAWQ and GemFire, showing using Spring XD to ingest GemFire data into HDFS and using Spring Boot to implement a RESTful proxy for HAWQ.
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Is that API Secure?
Marko Vuksanovic walks through HTTP security mechanisms, and how to transfer and store sensitive data.
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Spring Data REST - Data Meets Hypermedia + Security
Roy Clarkson and Greg Turnquist discuss using Spring Data REST to build a back-end for a startup, exemplifying with Spring-A-Gram, an app built with Spring Data REST and secured by Spring Security.
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The Hypermedia API Pivot
Nick MacDonald discusses a project’s transformation using hypermedia APIs, which has provided them with a simplified backbone to evolve internally and across boundaries.
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API Management – A Governmental Perspective
Simon Ferguson describes how MBIE is using APIs, initiatives that are underway to increase use of APIs, and the considerations that are involved with providing governmental services as APIs.
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IO State in API Architecture
Owen Rubel talks about IO state that can be shared, cached, synced and reloaded on the fly for all architectural instances without having to restart any instance.